MA (History), University of Malaya
BA Hons (History), University of Malaya

Research Interests
Chinese History
The Chinese Overseas
Nationalism
Migrations

Professor Wang Gungwu is the Chairman of the East Asian
Institute and University Professor, National University of
Singapore. He is also Emeritus Professor of the Australian
National University.

His books since 2008 include, in English: Renewal: The Chinese State and
the New Global History (2013); Another China Cycle: Committing
to Reform (2013); Wang Gungwu: Educator and
Scholar, edited by Zheng Yongnian and Phua Kok Khoo
(2013); Wang Gungwu, Junzi,
Scholar-gentleman: in conversation with Asad-ul Iqbal Latif
(2010); Voice of Malayan
Revolution: The CPM Radio War against Singapore and Malaysia,
1960-1981, edited with Ong Weichong (2009); China and the New International
Order, edited with Zheng Yongnian (2008).

Those in Chinese include《华人与中国：王赓武自选集》and《中国的主义之争
-- 从五四运动到当代》（郑永年合编）.

Professor Wang is a Commander of the British Empire (CBE);
Fellow, and former President, of the Australian Academy of the
Humanities; Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of
Arts and Science; Member of Academia Sinica; Honorary Member of
the Chinese Academy of Social Science. He was conferred the
International Academic Prize, Fukuoka Asian Cultural Prizes. In
Singapore, he is Chairman of the Institute of Southeast Asian
Studies; Chairman of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at
NUS.

Professor Wang received his B.A. (Hons) and M.A. degrees from
the University of Malaya in Singapore, and his Ph.D. at the
University of London (1957). His teaching career took him from
the University of Malaya (Singapore and Kuala Lumpur, 1957-1968,
Professor of History 1963-68) to The Australian National
University (1968-1986), where he was Professor and Head of the
Department of Far Eastern History and Director of the Research
of Pacific Studies. From 1986 to 1995, he was Vice-Chancellor of
the University of Hong Kong. He was Director of East Asian
Institute of NUS from 1997 to 2007.